Optimizing Elastic Storage with Flash and Tape

This week IBM Systems and Technology Group is hosting an Analysts Insights event in Greenwich Connecticut. IBM FlashSystem + LTFS Enterprise Edition with Elastic Storage are highlighted to show how you can benefit from the speed of IBM FlashSystem and the cost performance of tape. Based on business requirements Elastic Storage provides a seamless policy driven Dynamic Tiering that will put the data in the best location on the best tier (performance and cost) at the right time. Figure 1 shows Hot Data needing the fastest access times will reside on flash and the Cold Data needing automatic access with the lowest cost per GB will migrate to tape.

With Dynamic Storage Tiering you benefit from:

Single scale-out data plane for the entire data center

Single name space no matter where the data resides

Dynamic Tiering for files: Select data tier based on the file's "heat"

Khanh Ngo, Sr. LTFS EE Test Architect, is presenting the live demonstration at the Analysts Insights event (Figure 2). His demonstration consists of Elastic Storage, LTFS EE with the new TS4500 Tape Library , and a FlashSystem 840 using Dynamic Tiering to move files between flash and tape based on the "heat" of the files.

Figure 2, Khanh is ready for his FlashSystem + LTFS EE with TS4500 Elastic Storage demonstration with the analysts

Here are the links for additional information about the products used in Khanh's demonstration :